The following is a historic preservation of an earlier Version of the museum, as well as its announcement.

The Balloon Co. Gamevertisement Museum

....................✨Hey Gamers✨.................................

.........✨You are invited✨..........✨to an EXCLUSIVE✨.....

.....✨Very Important Person event✨.........

...................✨a pass to Access Early✨...................✨Like never before✨......

........✨show hasn't started✨.........✨but YOU get to peak behind the curtain✨..... in The Balloon Co. Gamevertisement Museum Version number Under.Construction! Download this game now to get on the ground floor (as well as all of the currently built floors above the ground) of a brand in-new-vation changing the landscape of delivering 🎮electronic entertainment🎮. Introducing the FIRST EVER (legal disclaimer, to our current knowledge 7/28/2024) DEAD OR LIVE SERVICE game! Such a concept is so new, the burden falls on us ✨marketers ✨to translate the concept for YOU. However, we are in luck, for we can relate such a concept to a single image, which is the golden ideal for any marketing attempt.

After this sentence, close your eyes, and imagine a cat inside a box 🐈📦 THEN REMEMBER TO OPEN YOUR EYES AGAIN TO READ THE REST OF THIS ✨marketing material ✨!

Thanks to the fact everyone already knows that a cat inside a box is both alive 😸 and dead 🙀 at the exact same time, all you need to do is know that this gamevertisement is 📦PACKED📦 with features that are alive😊 and dead ☠️ at the exact same time. Live Service games have scheduled updates where preplanned features are added. In contrast, our Dead or Live Service game will always continue to have the POSSIBILITY of updates WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEE. Within the game, you will find features that COULD🤔 come in future updates, as well as ones that NEVER SHALL BE!❌ But in the moment, they both ARE and ARE NOT!

To start the Dead or Live Service experience, we are releasing a snapshot of the museum BEFORE THE MUSEUM OPENS! There are many features that ARE and ARE NOT arriving in the upcoming August 30th 2024 Version number Grand.Opening. However, there is still a unique experience for those who choose to take advantage of visiting the museum early! Experiences including the following provided below in marketing friendly balloon emoji bullet points! 🎈Wander mostly empty hallways and rooms, providing a meditative solitude experience.🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️ 🎈BECOME a selection of Balloon Co. [gaming division] characters, as shown in the animated gif on this page! 🎈Start experience the Dead or Live Service difference by finding features that COULD end up in a future update, but also COULD NOT! Including a very special Dead or Live Service experiment ONLY POSSIBLE IF YOU PLAY Version number Under.Construction! 🎈Listen to brand new 🎶music🎶 made for the museum walking experience (and experience the beautiful 💽MIDI💽 version as well!) 🎈See how the caretakers of the museum react when YOU arrive BEFORE THEY WERE TOLD YOU WOULD!😲 All of this and technically MORE is available to 💾download💾 ⏳RIGHT NOW!⌛ Enjoy your free visit! 🎟️ [;p]}-{/: Oh, and if you somehow believe a game as great as this is only possible through Artificial Intelligence, you are WRONG! All resources and game making was done without the use of computers run on neural networks! Oh, and everything after this point is stuff we are ⚖️legally required⚖️ to provide in the game description for the jam we are a part of. The EXACT SAME INFO is packaged as a text file with the game, as well as available to see in game on the roof. Feel free to scroll past it if you need to access to access the DOWNLOAD, comments section or anything else under it!

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Resource List:

Music/ sound effect composition: Non-RPG Maker songs and sound effects composed with Lovely Composer

 ( Dungeon Witches 2 ) (C) 2021-2023 1oogames, doc1oo. https://1oogames.itch.io/lovely-composer

Font:

Claus Eggers Sørensen and the collective authors The Playfair Display Project Authors for the Playfair font used in Balloon Co. [MARKETING*DIVISION]’s logo.

Script:

Zylos https://rmrk.net/index.php?topic=45763.0 for the script to display logos before the title screen for RPG Maker VX Ace.

Tile sets:

RPG MAKER Futuristic Tiles Resource Pack legally required text: [Copyright](C) 2012 ENTERBRAIN, INC; artist Celianna.

HIGH FANTASY I RESOURCE PACK legally required text: [Copyright](C) 2014 ENTERBRAIN, INC; artist: PVGames.

Royal Tiles Resource Pack legally required text: [Copyright](C) 2014 ENTERBRAIN, INC; creator: Sherman3D

Not legally required special thanks: (Thank you artists Celianna, PVGames, and Sherman3D who actually did the work!)

2D Dominoes Pack and Abstract Texture Pack were both released under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain. So we legally do not need to credit them.

But we’re artists too, so we are collectively ignoring our lawyers directive in order to give credit to Screaming Brain Studios for making them! https://screamingbrainstudios.com/

Low Tier Hero used a custom WILLIAMS “Double Dragon enemy from an abandoned Beats of Rage project.“ sprite edited by G.M.Spectre. Released under the following license: “Feel free to use these sprite sets how you wish. Just give me a heads up and try not to make the character suck. “

http://maximoff.alreadyread.net/SpriteSheets/ G.M.Spectre has been emailed.

Balloon Co. [gaming division] claims no ownership of Double Dragon.

ALSO LOW TIER HERO IS A NON-PROFIT PARODY, WHEREASTHUS, WE HAVE A SHOT WITH A FAIR USE ARGUMENT IN COURT!

Engine and Run Time Package: RPG Maker VX Ace C) 2012 ENTERBRAIN, INC./YOJI OJIMA

This list is accurate TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITIES as of July 28th 2024 for the Under.Construction version of the museum.

Credits:

Music:

“Balloon Co. [gaming division] Logo Jingle”

“Market on a Star: Theme of Balloon Co. [MARKETING*DIVISION]”

“Museum Gazing”

“Museum Gazing_MIDI”

“Balloonii, Cat, and Skelly SFX”

All composed by anonymous workers at Balloon Co. [gaming division] and [MARKETING*DIVISION].

The actual work of MAKING the game using internal and external resources:

Performed by the anonymous workers at Balloon Co. [gaming division] and [MARKETING*DIVISION], and MIGHT continue to be performed by by the anonymous workers at Balloon Co. [gaming division] and [MARKETING*DIVISION]

Special thanks:

Special thanks to Fallible Things for hosting

the Pretentious Jam, which this electronic experience

was a submission to. https://fallible.itch.io/

Special thanks to Melos Han-Tani.

Future versions of Credits MIGHT need

extra special thanks, which will go here.

Not HERE here, but future here.